Design News

  • Tiles for smiles
    Design News • 27 Nov 11
    The Anda Project in Argentina is a creative urban initiative to fix broken tiles on the pavements with more colourful replacements. >
  • Lyrical cuisine
    Design News • 27 Nov 11
    Ever felt that food is so good that you want to sing and dance to it? The Recipe Project contains a collection of "song-recipes". Yes, really. >
  • Framed for famine
    Design News • 26 Nov 11
    Posterity is a collection of posters that draw attention to the famine in East Africa, while also raising funds for the cause. >
  • Wild walk
    Design News • 26 Nov 11
    Tiger & Turtle, Magic Mountain is a roller coaster-like walkway for appreciating the surrounding landscape. >
  • Lego for life
    Design News • 24 Nov 11
    The UNICEF Brick serves the dual purpose of providing food and water for victims of natural disasters, and can be used for constructing temporary shelters. >
  • Cherry lane
    Design News • 24 Nov 11
    Tom Price has created an installation of cherry trees with industrialised materials to comment on the ephemeral nature of their natural counterparts. >
  • Funky footwear
    Design News • 24 Nov 11
    Forget fashion and trends, Kobi Levi's Footwear Art turns shoes into sculptural artworks resembling flowers, slides and even Madonna. >
  • Poster designed by Richard Hart.
    Design Indabar in Durban
    Design News • 24 Nov 11
    In the lead-up to COP17, Design Indabar - presented by Dube TradePort - will look at how a (sustainable) world is possible through creativity. >
  • Urban benefits
    Design News • 23 Nov 11
    The Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award calls for ideas that address issues of mass urbanisation in Cape Town. >
  • Local adornments
    Design News • 23 Nov 11
    The Africa Adorned exhibition taking place in Cape Town is a feast of high quality local designs. >
  • Photo: Jannes Frubel.
    Clothes made of milk
    Design News • 23 Nov 11
    Is it silk, or could it be milk? Anke Domaske has created a new material from milk protein. >
  • Analyse this
    Design News • 23 Nov 11
    The Laboratory of Food Analysis assesses your health and then gives you a report card to eat, containing all the nutrients that are lacking in your diet. >
  • The meal of all meals
    Design News • 22 Nov 11
    The Last Meal project looks at the last meal prisoners on death row chose to have. >
  • Functions for green
    Design News • 22 Nov 11
    Functional Green is an installation that looks at ways of making urban farming really accessible. >
  • Visual recordings
    Design News • 22 Nov 11
    South African photographer Marc Shoul's collection of photographs about life in Brakpan has earned him an international award. >
  • Looks like Lego
    Design News • 21 Nov 11
    Flussocreativo's Leco containers look like giant Lego blocks. They're ideal for sorting your recycling. >
  • Climate can-do
    Design News • 21 Nov 11
    The Goethe-Institut presents a diverse cultural programme during COP17, which includes workshops, exhibitions, performances and more. >
  • Home for fashion
    Design News • 21 Nov 11
    Mungo & Jemima's second retail space is also a showcase for budding South African fashion designers. >
  • Nutritious labelling
    Design News • 21 Nov 11
    Renée Walker's food labels rethink how we receive nutritional information. >
  • Food forward
    Design News • 20 Nov 11
    Pearlfisher's Taste Insight report explores trends in food and drink, and finds that our relationship with food is experiencing a renaissance of creativity. >
  • Flash furniture
    Design News • 19 Nov 11
    The Crates is a collection of mobile furniture, ideal for the modern urbanite. >
  • Bountiful balloons
    Design News • 19 Nov 11
    Balloons of Bhutan is a project that visually represents the last Himalayan kingdom's Gross National Happiness, using colourful balloons. >
  • Symbol of creation
    Design News • 18 Nov 11
    Inspired by the cube form, Tokujin Yoshioka has designed a new logo for the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. >
  • Infinities
    Design News • 18 Nov 11
    Paul Senyol, Justin Southey and Bruce Mackay's Vast animation plays with infinitely tiny objects. >

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From the Archives

  • Design for Human Rights
    Design News • 13 Mar 23
    In honour of Human Rights Day on 21 March, we take a look at human-centred innovations from South Africa. >
  • To the world
    Q&A • 13 Mar 23
    Sumayya Vally is shaping and shifting architectural discourses for the future. >
  • Something fishy
    Design News • 13 Mar 23
    This floating pavilion, which resembles a fish eye, is dedicated to sustainable fishing. >
  • Full of beans
    Design Frontiers • 13 Mar 23
    Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture lies ‘squashed’ under a high-rise building. >